Talofa, Malo e lelei. Kiaora and G'day!Hows everyone's week been? For me, let's just say it's been fun, maybe too much
Last week Monday we hit up the ten pins and got our bowling shoes on, and hit them lanes. Sadly, I couldn't get over 100 let alone 70 but hey we had a good time with good laughs, and then our budget as feeds cause we broke after bowling yea the sausage sizzles.
District Council was pretty lit even though it went for 2 hours but still the Zone Leaders Elder Karsson, Elder Latu and their trainee Elder Hipolite from Brisbane. Of course Elder Latu being there and teaching a lesson with Elder Karsson the spirit was just strong, the spiritual giant Elder Latu is. Not long into the meeting the AP's show up Elder Ete and Elder Ellsworth. So yep pretty interesting District Council but very spiritual none the less.
Saturday was a lit day of service and a ward baptism to finish it off. Finally got to meet the legendary H who lives in Turangi, he's not a member but all the missionaries pretty much know about him and how awesome he is. I heard great stories about this guy from my trainer. If you're a missionary serving in NZHM mission then going to Rotorua District and meeting H is a must. He provides lots of service and loves the missionaries.We drove down with the district about 1.5hr drive from Tokoroa and started right away.
H took 4 of us to an elderly man (forgot his name but we'll call him old man Willie for now) and well we pretty much dug holes lol 1 metre deep and 8 of them for a big fence he wanted to put up. Took him 2 hours to put one so it was good that we were able to help and dig out the remaining 8 holes in 1.5 hours. As we were about to leave old man willie comes with fish and chips for us, I mean you can't say no... you just can't, so of course we had a quick feed and man the fish here is good. After we left and headed to a Marai where we painted the walls of a room and the toilets. Then of course there was another feed this time a massive hangi with tables of food... yea the imaginary weight loss After the mean as service we headed back home and got ready for the ward baptism, it's always good to end the day on a spiritual note cause right after the baptism we went home and straight crashed and was knocked out before 9 lol. Well then it was Sunday and after a mean as sleep we got up for our wonderful Tokoroa ward conference, a mean spiritual Sabbath to start the week. Had great talks from the Stake Presidency and our seki as choir.
One thing that stood out from President's talk was that there are rules and guidelines for example, the commandments that Heavenly Father has set out for us, are to protect us and keep us safe not imprison but to bless us and He makes it clear what we have to do to receive those blessings. He also makes the consequences clear when we don't follow them. There are commandments of Commission which are the commandments that tell us things we have to do in order to receive blessings and commandments of Omission are commandments that tell us not to do certain things to receive blessings, the commandments of Commission brings us closer to being like our saviour and the latter takes us further from being like our saviour. So love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind and love thy neighbour as thyself.Sorry, bit of a long email but that feed after ward conference though, so much food and so many varieties of cake
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Alofa atu,
Elder Purcell
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